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With the stubborn Jarl Bornholm's independence also disappeared for always.
The move of the Christianity should bring about the end of a thousand year old culture which is handed down to us only in hints or paraphrases soon:
Making feeling, grave finds, sacred sources and like that say, place names like Gudhjem and others, more.

No written representation can give clarity about the whole peculiar religion and lifestyle which has characterized the Bornholm of the heathendom.
However, the legends as they also are unhistorically have their origin certainly in Bornholm at a time of intense fights for the introduction of the Christianity.
The merit of the christianisation is ascribed to bishop Egin from Dalby in sparing the complete efforts aimed at it, to convert the heaths, under this the barbarians in Bornholm.

Egin drew to these tribes and when it preached in front of them people burst into tears and put such a repentance to the day that they crushed their idol pictures and vied which presently, to receive the baptism.

Your treasures and all their possession put it refused the bishop to feet, but this one the acceptance.

Instead it taught the Bornholmer to use its riches to build churches dishonoured to under ­ support and ransom the numerous prisoners who served as slaves in this area.

This report is not particularly published historical, compared with the impression either which the sagas of the bornholmischen Vikings give.

Everything points to the fact that the Christianity had gained a foothold on the island already when it went Egin, at 1060. The bishop has himself sooner, quietly and for the worldly influence einge ­ which then should characterize Bornholm as the island of the archbishop during the gesam ­ ten Middle Ages calculatingly sets the church with stress. The fertile, favourably situated and rich island became a match-ball between princes, church gentlemen and states.

Yes, the Bornholmer themselves were never asked and the island has for centuries up to the presence, sighed under the moods and the lust for power of the changing sirs.

The Viking spirit was circumcised from the sagas, but the year never attests 1658 quite brokenly like it.